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Police catch suspected distributor of deadly fake drug
Source: Xinhua |
February 7, 2009, Saturday
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CHINESE police seized a suspected distributor of a deadly fake diabetes drug, which killed two patients last month, early this morning in Chaoyang city of northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Li Dong, described as the chief suspect by The Ministry of Public Security in an arrest warrant Thursday, was caught at 4:40 am today in a rented house in Chaoyang city, said a Liaoning police officer.
The police had caught other two associates of Li Dong.
Li confessed that he had bought the fake diabetes drug from other province, and the police has started a probe into the case.
The fake diabetes drug linked to two deaths in China's far western region of Xinjiang was found to have come from Liaoning Province.
The drug, sold under the brand "Tang Zhi Ning Jiao Nang," was found to contain six times the normal dose of glibenclamide, which is used to help lower blood sugar.
The Xinjiang authorities said 14,400 bottles of the drug entered the region, of which 10,663 bottles had been recovered, including 3,539 taken from customers.
The drug also showed up in Liaoning and the southwestern Sichuan Province. However, no one has been found to fall ill after taking the drug outside of Xinjiang.
It is still not clear where the fake drug was produced.
Li Dong, described as the chief suspect by The Ministry of Public Security in an arrest warrant Thursday, was caught at 4:40 am today in a rented house in Chaoyang city, said a Liaoning police officer.
The police had caught other two associates of Li Dong.
Li confessed that he had bought the fake diabetes drug from other province, and the police has started a probe into the case.
The fake diabetes drug linked to two deaths in China's far western region of Xinjiang was found to have come from Liaoning Province.
The drug, sold under the brand "Tang Zhi Ning Jiao Nang," was found to contain six times the normal dose of glibenclamide, which is used to help lower blood sugar.
The Xinjiang authorities said 14,400 bottles of the drug entered the region, of which 10,663 bottles had been recovered, including 3,539 taken from customers.
The drug also showed up in Liaoning and the southwestern Sichuan Province. However, no one has been found to fall ill after taking the drug outside of Xinjiang.
It is still not clear where the fake drug was produced.
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